The question would be: what about newbies that do put in such effort, but are simply more interested in advanced cryptocurrency aspects, maybe especially in the realm of smart contracts and this sort of stuff. They might be easily overlooked since most long-time visitors of the forum just ignore the Altcoin section due to the sheer amount of spam to sift through.
Your concerns may be true about the situation on the Alternate cryptocurrencies board regarding the merit system, but actually I don't think the board is completely ignored by merit sources or other merit users. At least 101,174 merit have been distributed on the Alternate cryptocurrencies board since the merit system was introduced, and average 521 merit were distributed during January - June 2022 (not including July). The average sender was 122 users from January to June, and the average recipient was 167 users. The total of merit distributed on the Alternate cryptocurrency board from January to date is 3372 merit (including this month). Check here:
https://public.tableau.com/shared/K38WY9Z2Y?:display_count=n&:origin=viz_share_linkEven if they don't care about merits at all, they will have a hard time finding people to talk to when it comes to these technical subjects, because Altcoin spammers have no clue (nor interest) about those topics and technical Bitcoin people stay in the much better moderated Bitcoin sections.
About this I agree.
Both of you cut out the point of my comments, My response was directed to LoyceV, who suggested what sounded like post jail for newbies on the altcoin discussion board, in which I provided some challenges such development would cost honest newbies.
Sorry about that, mate. While LoyceV has not responded to you.
